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Bloomberg published an article evaluating the success and failure of Nafta as renegotiations begin this week. The article quotes Senior Research Fellow Sherman Robinson, who stated that the trade agreement "held up" the conclusion of many economists…

August 9, Washington, D.C. – Bangladesh is experiencing a quiet revolution in its domestic fish farming market, with significant gains among all the players in the industry, according to a recent journal article from researchers at the International…

Malawi's The Nation wrote an article on maize prices, citing monthly price monitoring conducted by IFPRI. The article explains the benefits of decreasing maize prices on the cost of living and bringing down a high inflation rate. The monthly IFPRI…

Research fellows Devesh Roy and Avinash Kishore, and research analyst Vinay Sonkar from IFPRI's South Asia Office coauthored an op-ed in India's Financial Express. The article examines India's Public distribution System (PDS), a social protection…

CNBC quoted Senior Research Fellow Joe Glauber for an article on US trade action against China. The article suggests that US agriculture played a role in the US’s decision to hold off from taking trade action such as imposing tariffs or trade…

Nigeria's The Nation published an article on the 2017 Global Food Policy Report launch event in Abuja. The article focused on the country's food security challenges in part due to rapid urbanization, a central theme from the conference. IFPRI Director…

Political activist Harsh Mander authored an opinion article in India's National Herald about the government's inaction in combating hunger and the country's poor ranking on the Global Hunger Index. Mander criticizes the government for placing its…

The Thomson Reuters Foundation published an article on food security in North Korea, which highlighted the Global Hunger Index. The country is facing severe food shortages because of an extreme drought. The article cites the GHI findings that in 2016…

India Spend, a nonprofit public interest journalism platform, published an opinion article by IFPRI Project Manager Vartika Singh on C-section rates in India. Singh highlights the regional disparity of very high C-section rates and very low C-section…

IFPRI senior research fellow Joe Glauber was quoted in a story from the Washington Post about the connection between trade and nutrition. The article looks at how trade agreements, most notably NAFTA, have impacted the production and consumption of…

Paul Dorosh, Division Director of IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division, authored a piece in Media Planet's Impacting Our Future. His article analyzed how countries vulnerable to famine and chronic hunger can learn from the successes of…

The Hindu Business Line reported that IFPRI has appointed Mahendra Dev to vice-chairman of the board of trustees. Dev, who currently serves as the director and vice-chancellor of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai,…

India's Business Standard published an op-ed by IFPRI researchers Manmeet Ajmani and Devesh Roy of the South Asia Office on India and China's participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the region's multilateral trading…

Environmental Research Web published an article on the competition of water use between hydropower and irrigation. Deputy Division Director Claudia Ringler added that 54 percent of globally installed hydropower directly competes with irrigation, and…

Africa News Tonight, a daily news radio program of Voice of America, interviewed IFPRI research fellow Mateusz Filipski for World Refugee Day. Dr. Filipski spoke about his research on the benefits of hosting refugees in Rwanda and Uganda. Refugees are…

IFPRI senior research fellow Joseph Glauber was quoted in a story from Bloomberg about possible Nafta renegotiation. Dr. Glauber emphasized that Nafta is widely seen as a success in agriculture. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue will meet with…

Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber gave a comprehensive interview with U.S. News on the importance of NAFTA on the U.S. agriculture industry and how changes to the Agreement can hurt American farmers. According to Dr. Glauber, agricultural trade…

An IPS article covered an IFPRI-facilitated seminar in Cairo on food security and rapid urbanization. Clemens Breisinger, senior research fellow, provided context on the challenges facing the region, which include food import dependency, population…